twistedhshowstock
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So I was in Jackson all weekend for the Dixie Nationals, came home last night and was scrolling through facebook just catching up when I came across a post that a breeder I am facebook friends with posted to a very prominent judges that I am also friends with wall.
This breeder raises and shows in one of the lesser competive breeds and has had a great deal of success, has a few currently in his showstring that have been doing really well so far this year and he had gone down and shown at the Open Show at San Antonio this weekend. Apparantly the judge, who is very well known and I think a very upstanding judge, did not like this gentlemens cattle as much as some of the other judges because he apparantly put them very low in their classes.
This breeder went home and posted, publicly on the judges wall informing the judge of how well the cattle had done at previous shows and how low the judge had used them on this particular day. He then went on to say that this judge obviously didnt know anything about evaluating show cattle and that he was obviously playing the politics game pretty heavily or he was just a complete idiot, but he preferred the latter.
This was a grown man, who has grown children that grew up showing. I have struggled with if I would put his name in this post or not because a big part of me wants to publicly call him out on this absolutely childish, rude, and inappropriate behavior. A grown man throwing a tantrum like this because he didnt win, and he did so publicly on facebook for everyone to see. How do we expect the youth, that look up to and copy breeders like this who have succes, to have good sportsmanship when the succesful adults are publicly having tantrums like this because their cattle didnt win. I think it was completely uncalled for, unacceptable and that he should be ashamed of himself and publicly appologize to the judge.
This breeder raises and shows in one of the lesser competive breeds and has had a great deal of success, has a few currently in his showstring that have been doing really well so far this year and he had gone down and shown at the Open Show at San Antonio this weekend. Apparantly the judge, who is very well known and I think a very upstanding judge, did not like this gentlemens cattle as much as some of the other judges because he apparantly put them very low in their classes.
This breeder went home and posted, publicly on the judges wall informing the judge of how well the cattle had done at previous shows and how low the judge had used them on this particular day. He then went on to say that this judge obviously didnt know anything about evaluating show cattle and that he was obviously playing the politics game pretty heavily or he was just a complete idiot, but he preferred the latter.
This was a grown man, who has grown children that grew up showing. I have struggled with if I would put his name in this post or not because a big part of me wants to publicly call him out on this absolutely childish, rude, and inappropriate behavior. A grown man throwing a tantrum like this because he didnt win, and he did so publicly on facebook for everyone to see. How do we expect the youth, that look up to and copy breeders like this who have succes, to have good sportsmanship when the succesful adults are publicly having tantrums like this because their cattle didnt win. I think it was completely uncalled for, unacceptable and that he should be ashamed of himself and publicly appologize to the judge.